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Show THE HERAL' rovo. Utah—Page 7 Lehi Matmen GIFFORD NIELSEN, drops game Nielsen Sets Orem Talk Utah Valley sports fans will have Monday to hear Gifford it how it is to go from wishbone quarterback at Provo High School to All-American quarterback at BYUthento oneof the top teams in professional foot. ball Nielsen, backup quarterback for the Houston Oilers. the past two years. and his father. Stan Nielsen of Provo, will be guest speakers at a combined Orem Kiwanis ClubCircle K meeting Monday at the Orem Campus of Utah Technical College Theaffair will be in two parts — a luncheon for Kiwanis and Circle K members beginning at noon in the Student's Center's main cafeteria and the talks by the Nielsens which will be open to the general public beginning about 1 p.m. Kiwanis and Circle K members planning on attending the luncheon must make reservations by noon Friday. Reservations may be made byphoning William H. Huish at 373- 5510 ext. 505. The luncheon cx is $6 But the talks will be oj tc everyone and are free Gifford Nielsen is the only native born Utahn to become an All Nip Wasatch LEHI — Lehi's wrestlers won the first five matches. struggled a bit as Wasatch won the then won two of the ee down the Oilers coach Bum Phillips said quarter h edicted he has a bright Wasps 28-21 Wednesday future in the NFL Pastorini. Renfro and the other Oiler players have been high in their American quarterback and he is an excellent after-dinner speaker At Provo High he playea the wishbone but at BYU he set Lehi’s Robert K. ler and LeRoy Gifford will talk about his ex: periences and of the transition from high school to college chosen All-American and taken in the NFL college draft by Houston Downs took one-point verdicts at 114 and and Wasatch’s Scott Sweat won ne at 15 pro ball an Nielsen was a basketball star at BYU and is also an excellent speaker He is also president-elect of the Provo Kiwanis Club With the Oilers, Nielsen is backup to Starting quarterback Dan Pastorini but he has had some bright Tonight's prep wrestling action in RegionSix includes Provo at American Fork, Springville at Spanish Fork. Timpview at Payson, moments andis called one of the in the NFL Just a couple of weeks ago he took over for the injured Pastorini and steered the Oilers to an impressive upset of the San Diego Chargers in the playoff game for the right to meet the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC championship game. In the win over the Chargers, Gifford threw the winning touchdownpass. a 45- Monday meeting should be a highlight of the year for the Rounding out tonight s action in Region Eight will be Juab’s Wasps members. hosting Richfield in Nephi Marion Dunn. sports editor of The Daily Herald, will introduce the 1 Nielsens Keller W. 64 rady Ripple W. 81. 114 After the luncheon, the partitions will be removed and the public will 2 wns be invited in yarder to Mike Renfro. Cedar City at Dixie and Pleasant Grove at Carbon In Region Two Oremtravels to Alta while Brighton is at Bingham and Keamsis at Hillcrest Steve Kesler. president of the Orem Circle K Club. said that getting the Nielsens to speak at their most promising young quarterbacks Nine action had their share of one-point decisions. praise of the young Utahn numerous records as a passer. wa in Region Overall the match was about as close as the final score indicates Both teams Stan Probst. W. 6-5. Troy Bonner. W. 54. L 121- 128-Clint Larsen. L. pinned Matt Patch. W. 3rd per. 134Billy Thacker W pinned Gordtn Miner L. 3rd per M4L-Phil Gardner Wo dee Greg Carter 1. 84. 147-Dave Cummings. W dec Cory Thayne. L. 6-0 157-Seott Sweat W. dee Darren Allman. L. 43 169-Wade Fox. L. dee Roy Talk. W 8:0. 187-Stacy Haws L pinned Nyle Horner. W 3rd per. HW Pat Sullivan W’ pinned Mike Hamby L. 3rd per BOYERIZE!— Springville Cruises Past Carbon, 77-67 By SEAN FRANCIS Herald Correspondent SPRINGVILLE — Making the most of 11 Carbon Dino turnovers, the Springville Red Devils spurted to a 3016 first quarter lead and never looked back as they clubbed the Price squad 77-67 in a Wednesday Region § cagetilt Led bythe flawless inside maneuvering of Tad Weight and the sizzling out- side shooting of Paul Whiting and Mark Averett, the Devils hit an even 70 percent of their first quarter field goals, and were never again seriously threatened. Bob Hyde,the game's top scorer with 27 points, paced Carbon’seffortsin the first half with 13 counters, but received little help from his teammates. On Springville's side, 17 ofits 46 first-half points were scored by the 6-foot-3 Weight, but Averett chipped in 10 and Whiting 11 for a more balanced attack The Dinos managed to trim the lead to one of only nine points in the third period, and started to turn the game around with new-found momentum This comeback, though, was shortlived, as Weight, with his patented soft touch jumpers, and Averett, with his floating, but deadly outside bombs. open underneath ard on the baseline, but the cripples were just not falling Passing, which is the key, along with continual movement, to this offense. was never lacking for Springville, as playmaker Mike Miner and other Devils executed somebeautifulassists Springville upped its Region Six record to 2-3 with the impressive win, pushed the Devils to the victory. while the Dinos dropped to 0-5. The floorplay of the second half, parHyde paced all scorers with 27, and ticularly the fourth quarter, was Weight recorded a career high with 23 somewhatinferior to earlier play, as for the victors. Averett, Springyille’s the gameregressed into some sloppy methodical scoring leader, popped in exhibitions of high school basketball in 20, just abovehis average, and Whiting its lowest form. had his finest hour, tallying, 19. Bent Springville might have retained its Jenson was next for Carbon with 17. more comfortable margin of 12-18 points until the final gun hadit not heen SPRINGVILLE (77) Averett 10 0-1 20, Bulow 20-04, Weight 10 33 23, for numerous missed lay-ups. Coach 4 1-19. Whiting 75-5 19. Miner 1 0-3 Allen 00-1 Elliot Jorlan’s mechanistic, motion of- 0.Felix Wiscombe 0 0-0 0. Reeves 00-0 0, McClain00-000 Totals $4 9-14 7 fense was constantly springing Devils CARBON(67) Jenson § 7-7 17, Nielson 10-0 2. Potts 1 1-23 Woodruff 5 0-1 10. Hyde 11 5-10 27. Milovich 1 0.02 Mathis 3 00 6. Totals 27 13-20 67 Springville W 46 65 77 “arbon 16 30 52 67é “I'm positive they're beatable,”’ Gardnersaid, ‘‘butit's going to take an awfully good effort on our part. One thing we've got to do for sure is take better care of the basketball than we did against Alta last week (the Tigers had 20 turnovers). Among the Miners’top players are Tom Roberts, a younger brother of BYU's Fred. He has averaged 13 points and 12 rebounds per game over Bingham’sfirst 10 games, nine of which they won. Others to watch include Jack Singleton, Russ Rentmeister, Brian Page, Shawn Hurley and Ron Vance. , Leading the Tigers are Chris McMullin, with a 20.6 ppg. average; Dave McGinn (16.3) and Scott Schlappi (10 ppg.). The Orem-Bingham gameis just one of the multitude involving Tri-County teams. Others include Lehiat Intermountain and Wasatch at Grantsville in Region Nine, Millard at Juab in Region Eight, North Summit at Tintic in Region Eleven and Pleasant Groveat Provo, Payson at Timpview, Dixie at Springville and Spanish Fork at Carbon in Region Six. All start at 7:30 p.m. LEHI “From what we've seen,” said Lehi coach Ken Wagner, ‘Intermountain, like usual, runs and guns quite a bit. They played Morgantough the first half last weekbut then raninto problemsin the second. And they're always good shooters. “The best thing for us will be to control the tempo," Wagner said. ‘‘To do that we need to play good defense and to stayin our offensive patterns instead of running up and down the court with them.” WASATCH “Grantsville lost a lot of players from last year, but think they have somepretty good ones in Worthington and Diderickson and Brown, up from the junior varsity,” said Wasatch’s Bill Farr. “We're not underestimating them. Anytime you play away from home the SEE THE eereeemenls Johnson of Milwaukee and Los Angeles center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar have taken over the lead attheir respective Positionsin the latestballotingto select a West squadfor the 1980 NBAAll-Star team. Free the secondleadingscorerin the league, has 67.096 votes and Johnson sports a 10,000-vote lead over Scott Wedman of Kansas City. Jabbar has amassed 75,969 votesat center. ‘Cornered’ Tigers to Meet Miners Orem hasbackeditself into a comerby losing its Region Two openerat home last Friday. And things won't be getting any easier for the Tigers. They travel to Bingham for a 7:30 p.m. meeting with the Miners, ranked number two in a statewide poll, Friday. “‘Bingham’s been playing really well,” said Orem coach Joel Gardner. ‘They're awfully big. We've got to play better defense, keep them off the offensive boards and keep them away from the basket to win. MUFFLER? Top Balloting NEW YORK (UPI) — San Diego guard Lloyd Free forward Marques BOYER 333 W.1230 N. PROVO 373-2855 WEEKDAYS 9:30 TO 9:00 CTEM penn situnay 9-7 CLOSED SUNDAY CENTERS game's up for grabs. “We're going to try to put more pressure on the ball this week,” Farr said. “We want to see if we can’t get the lead and not have to play catch-up for a change.” Farr said Darryl Zenger, who is averaging 23.2 ppg., is a question mark for the game. ‘He hurt his ankle in the fourth quarter of the Lehi gameand it really swelled up on Saturday,’ Farr said. “We'll have to wait and see what happens. JUAB “We've got our work cut out for us,” said Juab’s Alan Sperry, ‘“‘but the kids are excited about playing. Since they're rated numberone (among 2-A schools) we feel the pressure’s on thema littlebit. “Wedon’t match up with them well at all,” Sperry said.‘They're 6-6, 6-3 and 6-3 acrossthe front and a little smaller at the guard line. “To beat them we've got to run our offense and take good percentage shots,” Sperry said. ‘‘On defense we're going to try to put pressure on them bringing the ball down the floor and try to take them outoftheir offense. “We're just going to battle them,"’ Sperry concluded. Golden Eagles Alone in CHL Penthouse By R.C. ROBERG Herald Correspondent SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake Golden Eagles vaulted backinto sole position of first place in the Central Hockey League with a 4-1 win over Oklahoma City Wednesday night with little help from the stick and pads of goalie Rick Heinz. Heinz turned aside 30 Oklahoma shots, several while lying prone onthe ice. The rookie Salt Lake goalie was even able to prevent second and third shots from finding their way into the net, something that has plagued him in the past OklahomaCity’s only goal was scored by Alex Pirus on a powerplay with less than four minutes left in the second period Doug Palazzari opened the scoring for the Golden Eagles late in the opening period with a slapshot which cleanly beat Oklahoma City goalie Louie Levasseur. Palazzari later picked up an assist to tie Brent Meekefor the numberthree spotin assists.‘Each has 142 The Golden Eagles also announced that Bob Murdock, the last remaining holdover from the club’s 1974-75 championship team, had been placed on waivers by the parent St. Louis Blues. A team spokesman said Murdock had cleared waiversandis now free agent to negotiate with any National Hockey League club. Palazzari’s 23rd goal of the season, tops in the CHL, gave the Golden Eagles a 1-0 lead with 2:25left in the first period The Golden Eaglesincreased the lead to 2-0 on a goal by Brian Ogilvie, but Pirus averted the shutout with his 10th goal of the season to cut Salt Lake's Jead inhalf. The goal wasset up after Salt Lake's Rick Bowness was ushered to the penalty box for four minutes for high sticking. But Bob Crawford and Bobby Simpson each scored third period goals to put the gameout of reach. It marked the second goal for Simpson since joining the Golden Eagles from St. Louis. The win moved the Golden Eaglesinto sole position of first place two points ahead of idle Birmingham. The Golden Eagles increased their league-leading markto 22-11-4. Oklahoma City dropped to 13-22-1. Theloss raised OklahomaCity’swinless str RACQUETBALL RACQUET FS g° % 12° 19%): : strong Clemson team Wednesday night andsuffered theirfirst loss in 13 games — an 87-82 overtime verdict. } “It was one heck of a ballgame.” said Foster. ‘We could have wonit just as easily as lost it. I thoughtwetired out some at the end of regulation. I also thought we played gutsy and so did they. The difference in the game was Clemson's stubborn manto-man defense and Bobby Conrad, who sank eight free throwsin the overtime period tolift the Tigers to an 11-1 record and a 3-0 mark that puts them in tie for the lead in the Atlantic Coast Conference “Bobby Conrad really helped us with his foul shooting * said Clemson Coach Bill Foster no relation to the losing coach. “Overall it was a helluva win for us and a lift to our program." Clemson center John Campbell dropped in a layup with 4:22 remaining in regulation to tie the score 66-66. 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